Fraud claims should trouble conservatives
If it is to stand for anything at all other than short-term victories or “owning the libs,” the conservative movement must stand for standards.
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Why incentives’ sway didn’t bring Apple our way
Apple surprised the business world Thursday with an announcement it was investing $1 billion in a new campus in Austin, Texas. The announcement also included news of new sites in Seattle, San Diego, and Culver City, California, and expansions in Pittsburgh, New York, and Boulder, Colorado. It also dashed…
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For America, it’s closer to morning than midnight
Clearly, 2018 was a Democratic year, as it should have been given a Republican was in the White House. The Democrats picked up 40 seats in the House and seven governorships. The Republicans’ veto-proof “super majorities” were broken in both chambers of the General Assembly. It wasn’t quite the “blue…
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Temper power with responsibility
Part of the solution for our uncivil politics will arise from convincing current and prospect political leaders to take responsibility for the problem and start doing something about it.
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Clash between economic growth, development plays out in incentives debate
A recent change in North Carolina's targeted tax breaks highlights a divide among Republicans.
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Take time to broaden the mind
From 2011 to 2017, the number of degrees awarded in history, religion, literature, philosophy, liberal arts, and the humanities went down, by 20 percent or more in some cases.
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N.C. government spends two years squabbling over board only to finish where it began
Here we are, two years later. We’ve taken many, arduous, often tedious steps. Only to return to where we began, having gone nowhere. In late 2016, as Gov. Roy Cooper was preparing to take office, the General Assembly decided it would change…
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George H.W. Bush: patriot, statesman, president. RIP
When I reflect on the “Greatest Generation,” I’m always amazed at the selflessness which characterized them. Men and women stood tall, rolled up their sleeves — and fought in Europe and the Pacific, saving the world from tyranny. They knew the stakes, they understood their mission in combat or back…
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Silent Sam to get a fort
Silent Sam’s proposed new home will not be a shrine, as some critics have labeled it, but a fortress built to fend off physical attack.
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Beware claims about ‘unconstitutional’ voter ID
Critics are likely to blur the lines between the concept of photo identification for voters and the law implementing voter ID.